Object number
M.2013.26.617
Title
Abdominal box of Dilshan
Date
2013
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Size
l x w: 19 x 9.5 cm
Description
White plastic, pear-shaped protective cup or box. Fur holes in front. Padded edges.
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6.3
What does Don Bradman have in common with General Custer?
It appears that they both wore what Bradman called the ‘Confidence Producer’ in his book The Art of Cricket. 2017 marks the 160th anniversary of the first published mention, in Lillywhite’s 1855 Cricket Guide, of a ‘private guard’. Also known as the abdominal guard, protective cup or box, but rarely mentioned, it is a must for all hard-ball playing sportsmen and women.
For all the confidence wearing one may produce there are also the inevitable horror stories. The most well-known possibly David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd’s crushing box disaster from a ball by Jeff Thomson at the WACA in 1977.
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White plastic
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M.2013.26.617 Abdominal Protector of Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2013
White plastic and leather padding.
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